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When Benjamin Netanyahu stated recently that there would never be a Palestinian state as long as he was Prime Minister of Israel, he confirmed what everyone had been saying for years: Netanyahu has never been interested in a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His vast expansion of illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land since becoming Prime Minister in 2009 was evidence enough. Instead, his strategy has been to claim the land of a future Palestinian state, settlement by settlement.

In this regard there is no difference between what Netanyahu has been doing with settlement development on Palestinian land than what President Vladimir Putin of Russia has...

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